Biographical Sketch of Col. John F. Tyler, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO
>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Col. John F. Tyler was born in Lee County, Virginia, September 12, 1838.
His father, Henry C. Tyler, was a merchant of Jonesville, and also oper-
ated stores at other points in Lee County. His mother's maiden name was
Fulkerson, John F. was their only child. He was educated at the Virginia
Military Institute, Lexington, at that time superintended by Gen. Francis
H. Smith. He was graduated here ninth of a class of twenty nine in 1859.
In the same year he moved to Missouri, settling first at Lexington, where
he engaged in teaching till the breaking out of the civil war. During
the period that he was teaching he studied law in the office of Hon. John
F. Ryland, of Lexington. He was a staunch Union man, and as such render-
ed himself so unpopular with the dominant party in that town that he was
forced to enter the Army. He enlisted in the Fourteenth Missouri Vol-
unteers, commanded by Col. White. He was almost immediately after
elected Major in that regiment, and was subsequently captured with
Milligan's command in the battle of Lexington before being mustered
into service. On being exchanged he was appointed Aid-de-Camp, with
the rank of Major, on Gen. Schofield's staff. In 1862, he was pro-
moted to the grade of Lieutenant Colonel of the First Regiment of
infantry of the Missouri State Militia. He was afterwards promoted to
the rank of Colonel of this regiment, and remained in the service till
near the close of the war, when he moved to St. Joseph and engaged in
merchandising. He afterwards farmed for a short time. He has, for
some time past, and is at present engaged in the practice of law and
largely in the real estate business in St. Joseph. He was married on
November 9, 1862, to Miss Jane E. Spratt, of Lexington, Missouri.
They have four children, all of whom are dead. Col. Tyler is a member
of the Presbyterian Church, and has been, for many years, an active
Sunday School worker in the same. He has superintended some of the
largest and most prosperous schools of this character in the city; and
it was through his efforts that the present flourishing Mission Sabbath
School of South St. Joseph was organized. In politics he has always
been a Democrat.
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